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Recycle windmill blades

I read the article. This sounds like a Planning and zoning issue with the allowance of a company to operate their business. This is American and we have a new business model that needs time to get up and running, just like every other business in a capitalistic society. So unless the company violated a P&Z ordinance, the residents will have to get used to seeing a stockpile of fiberglass blades sitting waiting to be recycled instead of the steer they normally do. We all know that everyone loves change.
 
Keystone said:
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Hmmm ...

The tiny home prototype is made from the nacelle, or control box, of a V80 2MW model wind turbine that stood on the Austrian Gols wind farm for 20 years. Its decommissioned nacelle is just 33 feet long, 13 feet wide, and 10 feet tall.
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33 feet long by 13 feet wide by 10 feet high doesn't fit my idea of what constitutes a "tiny" home. That's as large as most single-wide trailer homes.
 
I saw one building with turbine blades as a roof, and found a pedestrian bridge made from one - in Ireland. And somebody is grinding them up - shredding - and mixing into concrete. Rome was not built in a day.
 
fatboy said:
Interesting concept............but still have the blades to contend with!

Hard to believe nobody has come up with a use for them or their material.
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I think Oceangate was working on something but then...........
 
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